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Wisconsin's Soul Foodnew
Chef Boy Ari tinkers with the brat.
Missoula Independent |
Ari LeVaux |
08-26-2005 |
Food+Drink
McMeekin's Challengenew
Dissatisfaction is rumbling through the Missoula County Sheriff's Department, but Sheriff Mike McMeekin, critics say, isn't listening. With so much bad news coming out of the sheriff's office, is there mutiny in the county?
Missoula Independent |
Brad Tyer |
08-26-2005 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Independent's First Annual Golden Growler Awardsnew
As Montana microbrews come of age, Independent drinkers survey the state of the brewing art.
Missoula Independent |
Independent Staff |
08-19-2005 |
Food+Drink
Now Ain't That a Crapper?new
How a million-dollar composting toilet in Glacier National Park turned into just another money pit.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
08-19-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Copper Giant Bails Outnew
Asarco, the mining company responsible for the cleanup of environmental messes across the West, files for chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
08-19-2005 |
Environment
Tags: Asarco
Behind the Lettersnew
Andrew Carroll traveled the world on his quest to preserve veteran voices -- including Kurt Vonnegut's.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
08-11-2005 |
Nonfiction
Losing the Middle Eastnew
Saudi unrest is just the latest sign of the Bush administration's propaganda failure.
Missoula Independent |
George Ochenski |
08-11-2005 |
Commentary
Peace During Wartimenew
With war raging in Iraq, Montana's Jeannette Rankin Peace Center finds itself at a turning point, battling apathy and activist fatigue as it searches for new ways to re-energize the movement.
Missoula Independent |
John S. Adams |
08-11-2005 |
Policy Issues
Tags: public policy issues
Vote for Depedronew
Kid 606 -- aka Miguel Depedro -- continues to push the envelope both conceptually and sonically.
Missoula Independent |
Adam Fangsrud |
08-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kid 606, Resilience
Let Your Monkey Do It!new

What's so scary about natural childbirth? The author and his wife found the answer -- not much -- and discovered much more by experiencing it firsthand.
Missoula Independent |
Skylar Browning |
08-04-2005 |
Science
Hustled
All the grit but none of the realism of John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood is found in Brewer's split-personality portrait of the Memphis hood.
Missoula Independent |
Jason Wiener |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow
In It for the Mysterynew

Author Peter Stark kayaked the 750 kilometer Lugenda River -- largely unexplored and populated with crocodiles and hippos -- and recounts his adventure, and the history of the ones before his in his new book.
Missoula Independent |
Azita Osanloo |
07-14-2005 |
Nonfiction
Battling Demonsnew
Spielberg tackles homeland insecurities.
Missoula Independent |
Nicole Panter |
07-08-2005 |
Reviews
Wrong Turnnew
James Lee Burke's latest gets lost at the crossroads
Missoula Independent |
James Lee Burke's latest gets lost at the crossroads |
07-08-2005 |
Fiction
Tags: James Lee Burke, Crusader's Cross
The Unocal Connectionnew

An issue that figures in both war and commerce is who will control a proposed pipeline that would deliver oil and gas to feed the burgeoning industrialization of India and China.
Missoula Independent |
George Ochenski |
07-08-2005 |
Commentary